Creating a thread palette is an easy way to make sure that you use the same colors when stitching designs for a particular project. For example, I would like to create some embroidered kitchen towels for my sister in law. Since they will be in the same southwest theme as the breakfast bar mats and potholders I embroidered last year, even if the designs are different, it is nice to stay with the same color palette. Or at least start with the same palette and maybe add to it as the designs warrant.
In Essentials you can easily do this by opening the design you want to take the thread colors from.
Go to the Utility menu and choose Threads and click on the New palette button to name it something that makes sense to you!
Click on the Import threads button and since we are taking them from an existing design that is open, choose Palette and Current page. You can then Select All and click OK to add them to your empty palette which you can then save!
Now when you open a new design that you want to use these colors for, you can choose it from the pulldown list and the program will try to match the colors correctly for you. Just remember - if a design has blue in it, but your palette does not, it will try to match it to something close. Most of the time I find it does a decent job of reading my mind... just remember that computers are not artistic or creative - they pretty much do what they are told 
In Essentials you can easily do this by opening the design you want to take the thread colors from.
Go to the Utility menu and choose Threads and click on the New palette button to name it something that makes sense to you!
Click on the Import threads button and since we are taking them from an existing design that is open, choose Palette and Current page. You can then Select All and click OK to add them to your empty palette which you can then save!
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